Safety
Bizav Has Lower Threat of ‘Rogue’ Pilots than Airlines
Unlike accidents based on wreckage, pilot murder-suicide "brings us into an area of the profiler of criminal behavior."

“The anonymity in today’s large carriers where you don’t fly with the same people” puts airlines at more risk for rogue pilots than business aviation, where “we fly with the same people, which allows us to keep an eye on people in our organization,” Thomas Anthony, director of USC’s aviation safety and security program, said on Friday at the Flight Safety Foundation/NBAA Business Aviation Safety Seminar in Austin, Texas. During his presentation, “Human Factors in Extremis: The Rogue Pilot Phenomenon,” he specifically discussed aviation’s most unsettling accident cause: pilot murder-suicide.


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